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  1. Re:Oh Boy!! on An Early Look At Mac OS X 10.8 · · Score: 2

    There's a setting for that: System Preferences > Personal > General | Show scroll bars : Always
    Indeed it is annoying but you can change it...

  2. Re:Considering who most computer users are these d on Microsoft's Killer Tablet Opportunity · · Score: 1

    Quick let's found a new startup! I have a name: "carify"
    No? Doesn't it sound good?! No, wait a minute, don't just walk away like that... hey!

  3. Re:What crap on IBM Seeks Patent On Judging Programmers By Commits · · Score: 1

    I used to work on an online product support team... ha, ha what a travesty. The foreman used to - among other things - bash me for "typing too slow" and "thinking too much" over my replies when the other team members were swiftly and productively typing away at our customers.

    Oh yeah, pity that those touch typing heroes were constantly hitting the del key... metric morons.

    In life, you get what you ask for... if not worse

  4. Paul Graham will definitely... on Hacking the NES With Lisp · · Score: 2

    send him a crate of beer ;)

  5. What about SCJP? on The IT Certs That No Longer Pay Extra · · Score: 1

    Hi all, in all this discussion about Cisco, RedHat and Microsoft certs no-one has yet mentioned the Java certifications; I'm talking about SCJP 6.0 (now renamed OCPJP 6, with 7 in beta), SCJD and the other certs for Java enterprise application development. Any opinions about these?

    I'm skimming through an SCJP manual and - while I already know most of it - there are more than a few small details that did bite me back... but I'm still debating whether it's worth the effort to actually take the exam.

  6. Re:In the words of chess master Emanuel Lasker... on Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From 'Hacker' To 'Engineer'? · · Score: 1

    I second this, the trick is to STOP and THINK. But get ready to fight for the privilege.

    Many managers will just be fine with the hacked together solution and will probably complain about:

    • your poor productivity
    • your academic mindset
    • your lack of focus
    • your insufficiently result oriented approach

    Don't let them bog you down, they're wrong although in their defense they simply can't see the difference and it doesn't matter to them. Besides, a properly engineered solution will not introduce the sort of design issues that keep them busy in the first place. Don't worry, just move forward and hop around; possibly in a different role every time.

    The Mythical Man Month is a good read, definitely a good read. I could go on with TDD and Enterprise Patterns but let's look out of our industry and get a construction site management manual; you won't understand every technical detail but you should take note of the coordination strategies. Engineering is about craftsmanship but also how to get 100 such fellow craftsmen working together.

    Oh, and be weary of Agile and other fad words... ;)

  7. Re:Yeah...but on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You mean choice to starve?

    fuck you, sociopath

  8. Re:I'd start by shooting the Captain.... on What To Do With a 1,000 Foot Wrecked Cruise Ship? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah and apparently this Schettino idiot was trying to impress a "not-so-hot-but-as-long-as-she's-willing-it's-ok" blondie (see over here) to get some pr0n action.

    Apparently though, he guzzled a whole bottle of wine before heading for the bridge where he took command and sailed the damn thing like a plane acrobat on an airfield show.

    What an unmitigated idiot...

    Even if one wanted, to think of such a level of incompetent misery would he a hazard; a cheap scriptwriter wouldn't dare such obviousness. I can't find a link but when the story of the blondie came out, an italian cartoonist said that "reality has surpassed imagination", referring to the comparison between Berlusconi and Schettino.

    This whole story is such a paroxistically obvious to the point of stupidity anaphor... I'm blown away by it.

  9. Low density plasma on Vast Web of Dark Matter Mapped · · Score: 1

    But what if the Big Bang never happened?

    Every time I read about webs of matter spanning across such distances, considering the time required to form these I remember the refreshing perspective put forward by this beautiful little book.

  10. Re:And so comes the market... on Restaurants Plan DNA-Certified Seafood Program · · Score: 1

    You're making a fallacious syllogism; life expectancy has increased due to better sanitation, improved medical techniques, and workplace security, not industrialization of food manufacturing. It may very well be, although difficult to prove, that we haven't reaped all the possible increase in life expectancy, because of the worsening quality of our food sources. As an European, my mind immediately goes to the obesity epidemic in the US...

  11. To all Apple bashers on 3-Way Price War On Black Friday: iPad, Nook, and Kindle · · Score: 0

    You just don't get it and you never will.

    You're geeks, these machines are not built for you and you will always react to your incapacity to understand them by disparaging those that use them.

    I don't own an iPad and can't imagine getting one soon; it's just a matter of personal preference and priorities that's all. But I was shocked and I became aware of the importance of iPads to computing, when I saw a retired senior reading his stuff on a bus. The iPad broke a generational and social barrier that had resisted for 30 years: that computers were temperamental machines only for the initiated to understand.

    So stop hating Apple and Jobs for making stuff that broke your bubble...

  12. Re:I hope you are joking and not just dim on All French Nuclear Reactors Deemed Unsafe · · Score: 0

    Or maybe it comes from overly cautious management that - given the propensity to sue for anything these days - thought that installing this equipment would prevent future claims - and settlements - of knowingly exposing people to dangerous working conditions.

    The ill-informed workers were probably voicing their concerns after seeing some pro-nuclear docu-ficion on FOX...

  13. F*uk you all on Feds Helped Coordinate Occupy X Crackdowns · · Score: 0

    The amount of brainless prejudice and hatred sickens me beyond compassion... This forum sums up the reasons against equivoking runoff collective rambling with democracy. You deserve your plight

  14. Re:Interesting, isn't it? on Feds Helped Coordinate Occupy X Crackdowns · · Score: 1

    Or a pony? A pink one...

  15. Re:More fixing of things that weren't broken on Fedora 16 Released · · Score: 1

    Troll... ... or just in case you're not:

    1. you never had to quickly restore a production DB by shoving the /var disk set into another server haven't you?
    2. yen never had to painstakingly twiddle a broken server using statically linked /bin /sbin, binaries?

    Kids these days, they think all there is to UNIX is a LAMP image on the Cloud...

  16. Re:Interesting on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 1

    Nope, wrong... and sir I'm getting pretty tired of the argument: "if it weren't for the alphas whose backs you're riding on, you'd be a bum", stop it.

    #ows are not hypocrites and the whole thing is not about being commie or socialist or whatever... it's about cheating. 99% is tired of 1% welding their power to bend the friggin' rules and cheat, lie and brazenly get away with it.

    It's about the dream of being able to work (hard) to actually improve one's living standards, rather than lose ground and be impoverished.

    It's about the shame for the amount of exploitation that 99% ends up participating to, because 1% says so and profits from massively.

  17. Re:I'm the Project Lead for Growl on OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1

    I second this post... there's nothing shameful to open the repo read only.

    This habit of closing development behind doors has only been made fashionable by Google with Android and I don't particularly like it (just to make clear what axe I'm grinding in this forum today)

    But anyway, good luck...

  18. Re:Whoever posted this "news" should be shot on OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1

    What does having a public CVS got to do with "release early, release often"? Non sequitur, example: I can't recollect the last time this - admittedly visionary and at the time massively cool project - released: http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=contribute&l=en

    You see, the whole point is whether you're wearing the OS badge for marketing reasons - to draw developer or user attention - or whether you really want to grow and thrive within a busy and healthy community. That's the only point really... you post your code online whatever the state (it was deemed good for binary release anyway wasn't it) because if there's a better way you'd better let it be seen by those that would know.

    If you're afraid you can't confront turf wars and big egos with pure leadership and vision, you might as well keep it closed to begin with: the community is not a free ride on the Amazon Turk

  19. Re:Whoever posted this "news" should be shot on OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1

    Yeah that's right, true... you stand correct!

    Not even the GPL requires to maintain a VCS, it's just what you _normally_ do if and when you want to participate or run an Open Source community - besides, there's so many free infrastructure for this out there, there's no real excuse.

    If you close the doors, maybe dump a tarball in an obscure FTP subfolder you're surely abiding to the word, but not the spirit. You can't give the finger to the community while calling yourself Open Source for marketing purposes. Although it's kind of fashionable these days...

  20. Re:Whoever posted this "news" should be shot on OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source · · Score: 3, Informative

    you don't "release the source code"... what you normally do is to maintain a certain kind of website, one that most often has an URL such as http://svn.growl.info then you don't spend a single extra-minute to "release the source", you just use something called a tag. Here's the linky in case you can't google for it: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.tags.html

    That's when you're talking about projects that are truly open source and don't call themselves that, just for marketing...

  21. Re:What's the alternative? on Occupy Wall Street Protests Go Global · · Score: 1

    There's probably "professional" protesters there, and so what? We get massive daily doses of ultra-right propaganda blasting off from corporate media, a little dose of homegrown sedition won't hurt won't it... ... besides, except for the sometimes colorful outfits of the claques following this new trend, it's a good thing to go back to talking and discussing these matters among laymen. Until now we just sat paniked and shocked as the "markets" burnt through a couple generation's futures while the real "professionals" hoped to convince us that there wasn't anything to do except take the loss and suck it up... ... erhm, I've been very cautious with my investments, debts and career: I don't se why I should give up my future to pay for some creep's compulsive gambling syndrome ;)

  22. Advertisement WTF on Facebook Files For a Patent To Track Its Users On Other Sites · · Score: 1

    I've been reading so many of these patently absurd patent stories, that adsense thinks I'm a troll myself! I wish I had a screen cap tool installed on this fondleslab but I got offered (oh, the audacity!) an ad to a Kentucky troll harvesting sleaze gang: "we provide the money to make the court system work for you"... What fuckers...

    I'm not pasting the link but I'm tempted to read all about it, I'm really curious how these twisted greedy shmucks think...

  23. Re:Lack of evidence of damage.... on Seismologist Manslaughter Trial Begins Next Week · · Score: 1

    A good and fairly balanced exposition of the issue and of the context around it. +1

  24. Re:And some people still wonder why... on Japan Raises Nuclear Plant Crisis Severity To 7 · · Score: 1

    Oh my eyes hurt every time I see an IBM based corporate portal ;)

  25. Re:Japanese whispers on Japan Raises Nuclear Plant Crisis Severity To 7 · · Score: 1

    mod parent up